"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."
Containing 4 volumes of Gothic horror tales, Edgar Allan Poe's collected works features some of the author's best-known stories. The Purloined Letter, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Amontillado, The Murders in the Rue Morgue and the timeless classic The Tell-Tale Heart bring the chills and thrills in short form.
Born in Boston in 1809, Edgar Allan Poe started his literary career as a poet, publishing his first book of poems in 1827 while serving in the army. He is one of the first 19th-century authors to become more popular in Europe than his native America, in part due to Charles Baudelaire's translations of his works into French. A well-respected literary critic in his lifetime, Poe's works would go on to become hugely influential to the emerging genres of science fiction. H.P. Lovecraft, H.G. Wells, and Jules Verne have all been inspired by the author's macabre tales of mystery and suspense.
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